Kaare Ruud
Kaare Ruud

Funding emotions w/ Magnus Fredrik Claussen, 2023

“...Seating is how subjectivity is recognised in furniture. There are as many seats as there are recognised subjects, and, as we know, not everyone gets a seat. In some languages, such as German and Danish, to be seatly, means to be decent. When seats break, as in Ruud’s collapsed Havana chair, subjectivity seeps out of it, like puss from a wound, it becomes a sculpture. The tenderness we find in his work stems from an almost paradoxical resistance to this process. 
…Meaning must be legible to matter, and in order to read we must be able to see a thing in its entirety – we usually need some distance. Here is a kind of contradiction in Ruud’s practice: his efforts at approximation rely on a priori distance, which must, to some extent, be maintained, in order for the meaning that is produced by this inching closer and closer, this conjuring act, to stay legible. The decay that we witness in his pencil houses and errant furniture – their frayed edges, their sunkenness – is as carefully managed as the erosion of subjectivity that takes place as Clausen’s assistants set out to paint Benny’s drawings again and again while the artist watches from afar”… – Kristian Vistrup Madsen

CANTINA, Aarhus (DK)
Curator: CANTINA
Docu.: Mikkel Kaldal

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